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bear the burdens of that extravagance. Think of the administration 
of this District, 70 square miles, costing nearly as much as the admin- 
istration of the great State of New York, with its 6,000,000 people. 
Think of this District, with 70 square miles, costing for its adminis- 
tration three times as much as the great State of Texas, with its two 
and a half million people, embracing its school fund and everything 
else. 
Mr. President, if I had not already been overloaded and overbur- 
dened with other questions [am not able to master here, I would be 
willing to undertake the business of trying to expose the character of 
appropriations made for this District and awakening public attention 
to it. I should feel if I could do so that I would do one of the best 
services that I could render to the American people; and any young 
man who comes to Congress, and who has the courage to do his duty 
and expose the sort of extravagance that goes on here, may, while he 
is doing justice to the American people, give himself a national fame. 
It is a sort of close corporation here. The people interested all 
around us approve of what we do. The people at home do not know 
what we do. If the American people knew what we did here upon 
this subject, either the policy would change or the representation 
would change. I have no doubt of that. There would be either a 
change of policy, and the extravagance would be arrested, or the 
people would send some other men here to take care of the public 
interests. 
The Prestpine Orricer. The question is on the amendment pro- 
posed by the committee to strike out the last three lines of page 41. 
The amendment was agreed to. 
February 24, 1891—House. 
The District of Columbia bill for 1892 under consideration: 
Mr. J. H. Rocrrs. Now I invite the attention of the committee .to 
this tunnel and the manner in which this loss was sustained by the 
Government of the United States and the injury inflicted upon the 
District, for the purpose of emphasizing, if possible, upon the Com- 
mittee on Appropriations the importance of having the work to be 
done upon the Zoological Park under proper management, instead of 
leaving it to some merely visionary person, or to others who have no 
time to devote to the work. 
For, assuming that there was no corruption on the part of the offi- 
cers in direct charge of this business, the result is precisely the same 
by reason of their neglect; and we will experience the same thing in 
the future unless attention is now given to the building of that Zoolog- 
ical Park with reference to that precaution also in my judgment. 
Mr. J. C. Cuements. * * * On this line we have seen much 
recently in regard to the hardship of charging the District of Colum- 
bia with one-half the expense of establishing and maintaining the 
